python-cassandra driver is not available for Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) on ppc64le

[Mahesh Waidande]

I am working on porting Cassandra charm (https://bugs.launchpad.net/charms/+source/cassandra/+bug/1387387 ) on Ubuntu trusty (ppc64le) environment. Cassandra charm required python driver to communicate with apache Cassandra database (http://cassandra.apache.org/ ).

I search python3-cassandra driver on Ubuntu trusty but not able to find it as it was not present. I tried to build Cassandra driver 3.0.0 from source (https://github.com/datastax/python-driver ) but fail to do it. I was facing some issues while building C extensions of python, although I am able to build python component of Cassandra driver. I capture all my analysis and findings in a bug which is present on JIRA. (https://datastax-oss.atlassian.net/browse/PYTHON-461 ).

Additional Information :
1. Distro details -
# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS
Release: 14.04
Codename: trusty
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2. System information -
# uname -a
Linux 30baf0095220 3.16.0-30-generic #40-Ubuntu SMP Mon Jan 12 22:07:11 UTC 2015 ppc64le ppc64le ppc64le GNU/Linux
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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Mark Brown (mstevenbrown)]

This is also blocking a Trusty Power8 PoC since Midonet (a network virt solution) requires Cassandra. Can we get this built for Trusty?